department manager

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Hamricks

Hamrick's is still very much a small business despite being a contemporary of Macy's and Belk, having opened for business within a fairly short time of each. This alone should say something for its business practices. The treatment of employees is no success story either. While there have been recent wage increases and new hires no longer start at minimum wage, work load and incentive are still disproportionate, especially where management and financial positions are concerned. Outdated tech, procedures, and police only compound the sense of ridiculousness that becomes a theme in any position. I worked my way up at store level from part time to my current position and having gained a management perspective, I can attest to the utter lack of offered incentive or benefits associated with the company. You will be met with expectation and passive aggressive condescension at almost every encounter with corporate. There is little effective or pertinent communication across the board which creates a top down system of disorganization. Distribution and acquisitions are quite a mess and the CEO seems to be an absentee decision maker. Everyone is made to feel under pressure and expected to act with a sense of urgency while being given nothing to make it in any way worth while. This creates an atmosphere with an inescapably high turnover rate and a disenchanted staff from the bottom up. At Hamrick's you'd have to put in a decade of full time work before you're allowed five days of payed vacation. There's no working around any other schedule that is not school or a full time job with another company. I've personally witnessed family emergencies being dismissed as no excuse to miss work. The payroll allotted for each month is so wildly disparate that you'll be working overtime one month and have 20 hours a week full time the next. Truly a place of extremes.

A typical day working at Hamrick's involved professional customer service and sales skills. It also involved stocking and merchandising  the store with product and clothing. Inventory checks were very important as well. With excellent hours and working with a great team, I learned to problem solve in difficult situations and people skills. Since working at Hamrick's, I continue to use these learned skills everyday in the workforce, and I look forward to using these skill in the future. The management at Hamrick's seemed to care a lot about the job task that I performed , daily. They also provided training  that helped me be the best associate that I could be. Fellow employees were encouraged and reminded everyday to put their best foot forward, and strive to make Hamrick's the best retail store that it could be. The most challenging part of my job was balancing time and meeting deadlines with stocking the stores merchandise and catering to customers. However, I managed to exceed in expectation concerning this task. The most enjoyable part of this job was pleasing the customer by meeting their needs and expectations, while also performing task in accordance to whatever was expected of me. his a job that I really enjoyed.

If you're full of energy and love people, have a TYPE A personality, then this place is a good place to work during the holiday seasons. You will get plenty of hours as a part-time associate.

As a sales floor associate, you will spend about half of your day as a cashier, and maybe the other half on the sales floor putting out stock and assisting customers. Expect to do a lot of running back and forth to help the cashiers confirm prices in your department.

Don't expect to get your assigned tasks done during your shift. You have to do what Hamrick's and the customers wants you to do for the moment. The customer is the most important person. When they call you, stop what you're doing immediately and go help! 

If you only get 29 hours of less per week, you can get more hours by asking to work during your scheduled time off. 

If you want to work long term, expect only 10-15 hour work weeks after the holiday seasons. 
DON'T PARTICIPATE IN ANY BREAK-ROOM GOSSIP. IT ONLY CREATES ANIMOSITY AND DIVISION AT THE STORE.

Hamricks is supposed to be family orrienated. And a Christian based company. The truth is thats a complete lie. This is the most disgusting and degrading company ive ever worked for. There all hypocrites and i hope they all rot in the lake of fire. First off the pay is pathetic i got a .25 cent raise after a year. And im the smartest and best worker they got. There all stupid compared to me. My schedule flip flops never get Saturdays off. And you got to be full time for 10yrs to get a paid vacation. Thats just very disrespectful to there employees. And you must work thanksgiving failure to work thanksgiving is automatic termination. Even if you have a death in family. Corporate doesn't work thanksgiving. And to me if they dont have to leave there family to come to work. Neither should there employees. I refuse to work thanksgiving and if i do get fired. I will do everything in my power to destroy them. I will expose there hypocritical company. I hope they go out of business and karma comes back and bites the Hamricks family in the butt!!! Please take my advice never work here. And boycott Hamricks dont give them your business.

A typical day at work included me opening or closing the store. when opening the store I would prepare the employees for the day ahead. I would count the money safe and the cash drawers and the deposit from the day before. I also helped process the paperwork from the day before in the computer. I would check emails and answer them appropriately. Then I would give the department supervisors their markdown paperwork for the day if there were any. On Saturdays I would process time cards, employee attendance calendars and the budget reports. After getting those things done then I'd file any paperwork that needed to be filed. After assuring all my work was done, I'd go check with my employees to see if they needed any help with projects they needed to get done while also seeing if there were any customers that needed assistance. Twice a week we would get trucks in so I would help get the merchandise to the floor. I had excellent help with the amazing team I had helping keep up with the store.

DON'T WORK AT HAMRICKS!!! These are the cheapest people to work for.  Even employees who have worked there 15-20+ years aren't even valued!!! Hamricks pay is ridiculously low, and some employees can hardly afford rent or groceries!!!! And that is very sad considering that Hamricks turnover revenue is $100-$500 million a year!!!! That right there shows how much they "value" your faithful service record!! Complaints fall on deaf ears. The store is already packed with merchandise and they STILL expect you to put more and more product on the floor!!! My personal favorite is... THEY DO NOT HAVE PTO.. not even for those dedicated workers that have been there many years!!!! The Hamricks are very greedy people and I feel sorry for those who still work there and there are many senior employees who basically have no chose but to stay because of their ages!!! THOSE GREEDY SELFISH HAMRICKS WON'T EVEN GIVE LONG TIME DEVOTED EMPLOYEES RAISES THAT ARE WORTH SOMETHING!!!!  And younger age workers in school or college end up leaving because of the unreasonable demands on them and very low GROSS pay!!! HAMRICKS IS NOT WORTH IT!!!!!

It was very stressful working with Hamricks.. nothing ever rings up correctly at the registers and costumers get mad at you.. the system is terrible and you waste your time getting help for a price check because no one will come assist you when they are called to the front!! The costumer will leave from waiting to long and then your blamed for it somehow...Management over loads you when your the only cashier because everyone else calls out... also if you want to have a vacation during a certain month chances are you won't get it especially in July. If your a new employee your blamed for everything for a while... another problem i had with this work place would be all those times when we didn't have enough people up front at the registers when we got slammed and they still didn't call for help so we had a line to the back of the store before management called for more cashiers to simply walk from their departments.....

The Manager was good about never playing favorites and keeping everything fair across the board.
The Assistant Manager was about 50/50 on this. 
The third key/team lead whichever you want to call that position took way to many smoke breaks and would disappear for chunks of time, but we would get out on time if not a few minutes afterwards. 
There was a handful of floor Supervisors and a couple Financial People that did seem to think that they had more say so than management and very little respect for management, they also seemed to never get into trouble for their bad actions; I believe because they would act different depending on which manager/key holder was on duty. A plus would be that most treat you like family. A con besides what I have already stated would be that you have to watch who you tell any person things to (your work friends) many are not who they seem to be and will spread any information they get about you and it will be around the whole store by the end of the day (good or bad).

The job itself isn't hard. Typical fast paced environment whether you run a cash register, or work on the sales floor. The only thing good about working here is being off on Sundays, and that is not enough to stay in this terrible place.  In the last year in a half the store has gone even more downhill with the choice in managers. We have two new managers who have no clue what they are doing besides starting a clique with certain employees. It's a toxic workplace to say the least. Management does not hold anyone accountable. Well not anyone who is a part of management's clique anyway. If you are a good worker, they will surely take advantage of you for that and have you pick up everyone else's slack. If you value your sanity and peace, don't work here.

After working here for the short time I have, what I have noticed is that the higher you are in this company the less it's rules apply to you. This is especially true when it comes to the time clock. A manager has been seen and reported by employees taking extended breaks and lunches. This manager cannot be brought to face what they have done because they go back and fix the time to make it seem correct. The company does not care about the employees at all. They refuse to provide masks during this pandemic and even allowed three workers who were living with someone who tested positive for COVID-19 to continue to come to work ignoring the fact that the main customer age is between 50 and 80 years of age. This is not a good company to work for and it is not what the founders wanted for it.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Department manager 14 salaries reported	$15.00 per hour
Cashier 7 salaries reported	$12.00 per hour
Department supervisor 1 salary reported	$13.50 per hour
Sales associate 8 salaries reported	$12.00 per hour
Front end associate 7 salaries reported	$13.50 per hour

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